Right now, my trading habit is as follows: I am browsing Twitter or reading the news, then I see something interesting, a related question pops up in my head, I check if someone created the question on Manifold, and if yes I place a bet if no I make the question. I don’t discover much stuff on Manifold itself through the home page. I wonder if Manifold will significantly improve discoverability in 2024 and if other users also think it is not ideal right now.
how is everyone feeling re this question? did manifold improve discovery in 2024?
I just browsed the question history of someone who replied to me and found a market that was very interesting.
I thought of your market I browsed by recently and searched for it.
I think you're making a very good point.
Manifold has a difficult job here, there's a vast number of markets, and the labelling/recommending of markets whether through "algorithmic" recommendations alone, or through the user polling a very general series of interests (not subscribing to existing market categories) then an algorithm working upon those, is hard.
But I really agree that I don't have a good feedback on this site, from my personally interesting markets i haven't seen yet, versus the markets I generally see after 3 months of membership.
I'm going to subscribe to that person now because I think that's the only way I'll see them more.
@VAPOR subscribing works but also has some problems because I follow some people because we interact on here and I want to show reciprocity but I am not necessarily interested in their questions. Other people I follow I am only interested in their AI related questions but not UK elections. Even the subscription feature needs some re-work
@Soli Yeah subscriptions on other ones are giving me UK football for example, and I'm not satisfied with it, despite good AI questions.
It's the only possibility I have to introduce their relevant posts into my feed. Theres no algorithm for their posts plus some implicit understanding of my interests
@Soli you can also just sort by New or Random in the browse tab; that's how i find many of the markets I bet on